Context Around the Signal: Fear & Greed, Sentiment, Whales
The macro panels that tell you what kind of market your signal is firing into.
A signal fired into panic behaves differently from the same signal fired into euphoria. The market-context panels exist so you never read a card in a vacuum.
Fear & Greed compresses volatility, volume, momentum, and social data into a 0–100 sentiment index for crypto. Extreme fear readings historically cluster near local bottoms; extreme greed near local tops — clustering, not certainty.
The sentiment panel aggregates social and market mood, while whale transactions surface large on-chain movements — useful context when a signal aligns with unusual flows.
Altcoin season index measures what share of top coins are outperforming BTC; derivatives panels show funding rates and open interest — whether leveraged positioning is crowded on one side.
Use context as a filter, not a trigger: a BUY into extreme greed with rising funding is a different proposition than the same BUY into fear with neutral positioning. The signal measures the instrument; the panels measure the weather.